Some said that Ethan Mathers was one of the smartest men in the world. He didn’t know if that was true, but there was one thing he was sure about and that was he had the best memory in the world. He had what many experts called an Eidetic memory…

The sun rose and began its languid trip around the sky. Its light stretched among the woods, finding hidden spaces, covering others in new shadows. Dawn’s warm yellow light didn’t capture the way the frigid air stopped your breath, or how on really early mornings if you didn’t keep the…

It was a rainy day, the day that I met her. I remember the raindrops making their way down the shop windows as I walked along the sidewalk. I clutched my collar, holding it close to keep the precipitation out, and to keep the last vestiges of warmth inside my…

I woke up to find an eight foot tall man in a rumpled suit staring down at me. The last thing I remember was falling asleep in Algebra. The large man bent down, grabbed me by the shoulder and lifted me to my feet. “Sorry sir,” he said, “some find…

She sat on the floor. She usually didn’t have to but now she didn’t have a choice. In fact, just yesterday she had a rather nice chair to sit on. She was still mad that they took it. She was walking home when she saw two men walking out of…

“How did you pick this place?” “Groupon.” “Really?” “No.” The cabin we had just driven three hours to was tucked back in the woods, and it was nearly impossible to see from the woods. “Did it look like this on Airbnb? It didn’t look like anyone had been there in…

Under my finger and my thumb, the keys rest, snug as a rug, Under my window, a clean grating sound, when the shovel sinks into icy snow, My father, shoveling, as I look down, Till his straining back among the driveways, Bends low, and rises yards later, Crooked back, and sidewalks bare, where he…

There was a man who didn’t like spending time with people and if he could have it his way he’d just as soon spend the whole day by himself. The only problem was he was married, and he had three children. He couldn’t remember the last time he was alone. …

The old man sat on his porch looking out at his property, rocking gently in his chair thinking about this and that as old guys tend to do. He sat whittling while the girls played in the yard. The sun was getting lower in the sky when he heard something…